Amazing Facts About Sleep That Will Surely Impress You

Sleep is very essential for every living thing. It is a periodic activity that is closely linked to our body clock and serves as a sort of "defense mechanism," be it a plant or an animal, including human beings.

Here are a few important facts about sleep you probably knew about but never gave them a second thought -

What Goes On As You Sleep - The most important thing that happens is that your body gets a chance to rejuvenate, relax, replace dead cells with new ones, and heal the feeling of fatigue. The brain gets re-charged and important hormones are released that help the tiredness go and you have a feeling of being fresh on waking up.

Need For Sleep - Babies need most sleep - up to 16 hours a day since the cells are growing rapidly in their body. As they grow older, the pattern changes from up to 10-12 hours of sleep in 3 to 12 year olds and 8 hours sleep from 18 to 55, the older persons needing only about 6 hours.

Dreams - dreams are normal and common phenomenon. Curiously men dream about themselves and other men almost 70% of the time, while women dream of women as well as men almost equally. We can dream of only the faces we have already seen sometime, someplace - whether we remember them or not.

Parasomnia Or Sleep Walking - This is a disorder that makes a person do unnatural movements despite being asleep. It can lead to crime resulting from driving; writing bad checks, rape or molestation, etc while one is actually asleep!

Sleep Positions - Sleep positions are also regarded as a sort of key to the type of personality one reflects. To see the various positions, go to my website..

Bonding - Sleeping together increases the bonding. However it is assumed that 1 in every 4 married couples sleep in separate beds.

Dream Recall - Almost 50% of your dream is forgotten within 5 minutes of waking up. Also, within 10 minutes, its 90% gone!

Positive Affirmations - The affirmations made during the hours of wakefulness and semi-sleep have a deep impact on behavior and personality.

Phases Of The Day - Sleep is induced by lack of sunlight in the normal course of our body cycle. This explains why we sleep early when there is no light or sleep late when the room is well lit.

Effect On Health - Without sleep, health deteriorates more rapidly than without food! You may be able to survive starvation for more than ten days, but without sleep for more than 7 days, you might just not survive!

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